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1Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923, and Booker, John, 1840-1864Add
 Title:  Blair Family Records [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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2Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair, fragment, n.d. [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: James Reynolds sends his best respects to you, I was verry sorry to hear that my sweetheart was about to leave me, to hunt for another one in such a time as this, tho if she sees eny body that she likes better than she does me she can have my concent to take him, and I will go another way,
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3Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923, and Blair, A.Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair with inclusion from A. Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: I have no doubt But what you think by my long silence that I have forgoten you tho Ill have you to know thatsuchis not thecase I have bin waiting to find out whare we had to be stationed we are at winchester, now I dont know how long weel have to stay here, I am in hopes that we will stay here for some time, we have elegant water and a plenty of it, and a plenty of good pervision so far, and a fine chance of beutyful young Ladies, and the kind est that I ever saw in my life, and the most beautiful Country that I ever saw thay have fine Crops over here, and not mutch likely hood of a fight the yankeys has gone back to martainsburg and it is thought if we get them we will have to go after them, a young man that belong to our Regement got shot yesterday eavening accedently, and died this eavening the young man that shot him is a bout to greve him self to deth about it Thay are both from martinburg I dont know neither of them,
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4Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: I received your kind letter last eavning which gave me great releaf I had not hird from home in nearly a month I had concluded that you all had forgoten us intirely I told the boys if my relation wanted to hear from me thay would have to write to me for I had writen three letters to thare one, and if thay would not write to me, I w I would not write to them, tho I will excuse you for this time if you will not do so eny more,
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5Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: I write afew lines this morning to inform you that I am well at this time and hopeing that it may find you all injoying the same blesing, the health of our company is better at this time than it has bin for some time,
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6Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923, and Booker, John, 1840-1864Add
 Title:  Booker Family Records [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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7Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair, fragment, n.d. [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: PS the next time you see Miss Nannie[1] gave her my best repsects and ask her if she has goten in a good humor with me.
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8Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: I havent the least doubt but what you th think that I have for gotten you if so, I can assure you that it is not so, I have nig lected answering your letters for some time tho I think I can offer good excuses for so doing,
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9Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: I write you afew lines to let you know whare we are, we are on the out post the yankees are shooting at our men constantly tho it is very cildom thay hit eny of them, thay havent shot but one man in our Regiment he was shot thursday, the he was shot in chin, his name was T Tucker[1] be long ing to Capt Carters Company, thay was a battle faught here last weorsday eavening thay a good maney killed on boath sides tho a great maney more on the enimys side than thay was on ours we was not in the ingagement theyankees sent a flag of truse this eavning to berry thar dead, ifthay we have a general ingage ment here I think it will settle the war for the best of the two armys is here, the yankee prisners that our men have taken say that thay have got to whip or die here, and I thay will have to die at least I hope so,
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10Author:  Booker, John, 1840-1864Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: I receaved your letter of the sixth sence I have bin at this place an wer glad to here from you all, I would have ritten to you be fore now but we have bin posted on the out post an I have ent had the chance this leaves mi self & Jimey well an much hopeen these few lines ma find you in joying the same blesing. We have a good eal of sickness here, at least a good em meny that are un able for service We have had a very hard time sence we left Orange C H, we havent got any tents, nor I dont reaken we will have any whyle we sta here, we have to sta in entrenchments every other day an night, the entrench ments we sta in are in a quarter of a mile of the yankees, they are constant shoot ing at us an throw en bums over us, we have ent got but one of our men wounded sence we have bin here, but some are get en woun ded every day an sum cild.
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11Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923, and Booker, John, 1840-1864Add
 Title:  Letters to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: after long neglect I in deavor to answer your kind letter which came to hand in due time I hope you will excuse me for not writing sooner, as I was verry unwell for several days after I got your letter, I have bin waiting sence I got well to to learn something new to write, tho I be leav thare is no news in circulation now atal, I hear but very little said about the yankees now, tho we are still preparing for them close by here, we have to go about four miles to work on the breast works every other day, I cant beleave that thay will come bac here again soon, tho thare is no teling what the fools may do,
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12Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: After long silance I write you afew lines which will inform you that we are boath well, I have had very good health since I left Richmond John has bin a little sick several times tho he is very well at this time, hard marching agrees with me finely and I tel you I have had enough of that to make me fat, if I only cud of goten enough to eat, the rations has bin very scanty a large portion of the time sence we have bin marching, we have not marched much for the last ten days and it looks like thay are trying to feed us to death now, thay are giving us eny quantity of fresh beef and fresh hog meat, I would like very much to gave you a history of our travels, tho I have not got the patiants nor time to write it, I hope we will all be permited to return to our homes in peace soon, and then I can tel you of our ups and downs, it is thaught in camp that we will have peace soon and, I trust we may tho I dont know the public appin ion I have not seen a paper in a month, all of our conscripts are sick, thay was only four sent to our company, John Hundley [2] and Whit and Memry Inman[3] and Buc Pruett [4] our old members has kept up finely concid ering the exposeure, we have to waid every stream we come to that has no bridge across it, we have waided the potomac three time we are not aloud time to take off our clothing, to croos creeks & rivers, we have to go in just as we are, and then march with our wet clothing on, Bag Pritchett & Dac are both sick and at the hospital, Dasey Price[5] has bin sick fror some time, he has bin staying at private house close by Winches ter, I all of our sick & wounded are order ed from Winchester to Staunton, I think we will go bac to Richmond again soon at least I hope so, for I have not hird a word from home since I left Richmond, you must write to me soon and direct your letters to Winchester, we are onley five miles from Winchester now,
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13Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: I write you afew lines this morning to let you know that we are boath well and much hope ing that this may find you all enjoying the same good blesing, I have no news of intrust to write we have had a long rest since we have bin here, tho I expect we will have to leave here to day, we have orders to be ready to march at amoments warning, I do know not know which way we will go, I received a letter from & sister yesterday dated the 8 of Oct & one from sister the other day dated the 5 of Oct, [2] I was sorry to hear of sickness being in the neighbour hood, we have some little sickness in camp tho not as much at present as has bin we have too sick men in our company Bage Pritchett & John Hundley[3] thay are not sick much tho thay are not able for sentry, I have enjoyed very good health since we left Richmond. I think I can stand the service now if thay will gave me enough to eat, we have goten a plenty since we have bin here accept salt, same we have not goten more than half enough salt I am glad that we are going to leave this place. for the people through here are all mostly quakers, and I had almost aslive be with the yankees as to be with the quakers, the yankees will sell us eny thing cheap for the specia tho thay will not take our notes, the quakers will sell any thing thay have got when the spirit moves them, tho we cant catch them rite half our time, I will hush about the yankees and quakers, and tel you what a interesting meeting has bin going on in Camp, it has bin going on for near a month, nearly every night thay has bin a good meney converts since the meeting commenced I think it is time for them to turn after being blesed so plainley as they have bin in the past battles, I think Mr Penic [4] had changed very much, be fore he was taken sick. he said that he was deter min to do better than he had bin do ing I dont think I ever saw a plainer change in eny person than there was in him,
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14Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: I write you a few lines this morning which will inform you that my Self and John is yet in the land of the living and injoying a reasonable portion of health, and much hopeing, th when this comes to hand it may find you and all injoying the same great blessing, I have no news of interest to write, we have bin marching for the last four days, we got here yesterday evening, I understand there is plenty of yankees near hear, tho I havent seen eny of them, we met the citizens moving out yesterday as we came in, thay said the yankees was going to bshell the town yesterday, tho thay have not commenced shelling yet, I would not be surprised to hear the canon at eny time, I think our men is waiting for the yankees to open the ball, I hope thay will leave while our Genals Generals is waiting for them to commence fighting, I think thare is verry strong force here on both sides, if we have a battle here I expect it will be a verry hard one, I got a letter from sister Mary[2] last friday dated 17th inst[3] if you see her be fore cliff Penic [4] starts tel her not to send our coats
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15Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: I write you afew lines this sabathmorning which will inform you thatmy self and brother are both well and getingon finely, and much hope this may reach you in due time and find you all injoyingthe same greatblesing, I have no news of importance to write to you, we have takenaverry hard march sence I wrote to you before we were marching ten days in succession, we got to this place last thursday eavning. I have no idie how long we can stay here we are under marching orders now. we have to move as the enemy moves, it was thought that thay were going toatact us yesterday thoughthaydid not. thaycame over last tues dayand gave ourcavilry averry hard fight thay faught nearly all day. took our men on seprise and got the advantage an the start, though our men drove bac across the river at last, thaytook some prisners and horses, our men took between three and four hundered pris ners, I dont serpose thay made much by that move, thayhave bin sendingthair cavilry throug through the country to steal and destroyevery thing can, thay take all the negroes and hossesaway with and burn the meat corn wheat and flour thay can find. I have bin to several houseswharethe yankees had taken every thay had. you all think you have great deal to see trouble about though you have nothing campared to those that live near the line of the enemy, the yankees is getingtoo mean to live, I thinke thay are depending altogetherapan them selves forthair inde pendence, and we all know that is a poor dependence foreney people todepenapon, I still live in hope of peace soon though I may not live to see it,
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16Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: I write you afew lines this morning which will inform you that my self & brother are both well and geting on finely. and I much hope this may reach you in due time and find you all injoying the best of health and all other blesing, I have no news of importance to write, we have bin near Chambers Burg for several days. and I reaconwe will stay several days longer, we have quite a nice time sence we have bin Pennsylvania in the way of something to eat we can get plenty of milk & & butter and apple butter that is verry good the citerzens in this country all seem to be afraid of us thay treat us verry kind though I beleave it is don through fear the most of our Virginia boys treat them verrykind though thare is some of our extream southern troops has treated the people badley I am sorry thay do so. it is against ed Gen Lees orders to interrupt private prop erty, this is a verry flourishing looking Country the crops all look fine. the country has it has never felt the affect of the war, though I guess if we stay here long it will feel the affect of it, our quater masters & Commisarys has goten agreat meney nesarys for our army sence we have bin in this state
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17Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: I write you afew lines this eavning in answer to yours of the 23 of June which I received to day and you may be asured that it afford me great pleasure to hear from you all once more. it had bin more than a month sence I had herd from home, this leaves my self and brother both well. and I much hope it may reach you in due time and find you all injoying the best of health and all other blesings, we have had a verry hard time sence I wrote to you before both marching and fighting to do, we went in to Pennsylvania and stayed for some time and had a hard Battle Near Hagerstown Getys Burg it commenced on the 1 day of July and continued until the night of the 3 day, and then both armys fel back with great loss, we went in the 3 day and got nearly all of our Devision killed & wounded I hope thare was not another Devision in Lees army that suffered the loss that Picketts [2] did, Gen Picketts lossed every Brigidary Gen that he caryed in the battle too killed and one taken prisner nearly all the officers in our brigade were killed & wounded. we lost our Col one of the best men in service. he was a good offeser and he was good to his men Thay all loved him, our Lt Col lost one of his arms at Mal vin Hill and got the other one seriously wounded in the Battle the other day [3] I guess you will see a list of the killed and wounded in the papers which will be more correct than I could gave you. thare was 35 men went in the battle in our company and thay was only 15 of them cam out fit for duty, My self & Jon come through safte are we not luckey ah we have bin so far thay was a ball pased through my sleeve though it did not hurt my arm, me and Jon came verry near being taken prisner on the day of the battle I told him when I saw that we were nearly surrounded I told Jon that we would run and try to get away from them and we made our ascape by doing so, while several of our boys that was with us let the Yankees take them. we have taken a great many of the Yankeys prisners . our Devision brought some five or six p thousand of them to this place, I hird that the Yankees papers stated that thay lost forty thousand killed at the battle at Gettysburg, I hear of a small battle nearly every day and I am expecting another big battle every day. though I don't think thay will put our Devision in, our brigade is on guard in this town, the citerzens of the town seem to be in favor of the Yankees mostly,
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18Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923, and Booker, John, 1840-1864Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: I write a few lines illegible in ansur to yours of the 16 inst [1] which come to hand in due time, and Ill a shure you that I were glad to here from you all an to here that you wer all well, I had be gun to think that you had for gotten me Or had written an I had failed to get your letter, tho I ser pose you had nt writen on account of going to preachen, thare fore I wreaken you are excusable for not not writen sooner, this will in form you that through the mer cies of a kind Providence, My self an James are Both permitted to live in the enjoyment of good health, and I hope this will find you all enjoying the same great blesing, I wer glad to here that you all had, had such a good meeten at Hermon [2] I wish I could have b bin thare with you all, I can here a some Good Preachen here but I cant enjoy my self like I could at Hermon
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19Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: I seat my self, this beautiful sabath morning for purpose of responding to your kind favors of the 23 & 28 of Sept. which I received several days ago, and would have answered them amidiately though I expected to have gon home soon, and thought that I would answer them in purson as I am such a sorry hand to write , Though it was my s mis fortune to be in formed that I could not go yet a while, I took it for my share and contented my self as usial, I think a soldier aught to be satisfied to do as well as I hav bindoing for the last few days. have a plenty of some thing good to eat and a good apitite to eat it. that is good enough for any body in war times. though you know it is not natrial for human being to be satisfied the better thay get. the better thay want. and the more thay get. the more thaywant, And thare is non of them that knows how to appritiate a blesing until after thay are deprived of it, I know this by experience. for when I was permited to injoy the comforts of good home and kind frends on everry side of me. I was not satisfied. I wanted to change my base of operrations, thought that I could do better than what I was doing ther, O if I should ever be permited to injoy such comforts again. I would know how to appritiate them. (God grant that I may) Again I say it is not nartrial for us to be satisfied, though I injoy more comforts than I am worthey of, yet I am not satisfied. I thank God that I have bin spared and permited to injoy such great blesings while so meney far better than I am have bin cut down by both desease & the enimy. I have bin permited to pass unhurt and injoy exerlant health, after all this I am not satisfied. I think that I would be rather better satisfied if the speculaters were all presed in to service so the poor women and children could get some thing to eat with out paying five times the worth of it, if thare is any thing to sell, a speculater is after it, faster than a hawk after a chicken, it would not do for me to have my way with them, thare is no news in this so I will hush it, unless I could say some thing better about them. I dont beleave thare is any news in camp of importance everry thing seems to be verry quiet a bout here Gen Corses [1] Brigade has came hae here. thay were sent to Tennessee when we first stoped here. thay say thay had a verry nice time while thay were gone they did not loose but verry few of thair men, our Chaplin has bin verry un well for several days though he is proveing now hope he will be well again in few days. I dont think I have ever told you his name it is R.W. Cridlin [2]he is a verry nice young Baptist minister, I got a letter from sister Benson[3] this morningthay were all well, accept Johe was at home complaining though I dont sepose that he was verry bad off. she said he was going to see his sweet heart. John is gone to the cook fire to make a slise potato pies. I wish you were here to take dinner with, I see a good meney Ladies pasing about camp, the married men are sending for thair wifes and boarding them with the citerzens around camp, I wrote to sister Mary the other day and for got to tel her that we did not nead any clothing. we drew a new suit the other day anddont nea want any clothing from home atal every thing you all sent in the box came safte I am under many obligations to you all for send ing us such a finebox it was a great treat to us, I will closes for the presant youmust write me soon and gave me all the news
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20Author:  Booker, John, 1840-1864Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
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 Description: I ll take the presant op potunity portunity of answering your kind letter of the 10 inst[2] which came to hand a few days a go you dont no what pleasure it was afforded me to receive your letter an here that you all wer gettin on well. I am sure thare is nothin that affords me more plesure than to recieve a letter from any of my frends or relation at home. but its sildom I get a letter I had bin exspectin a letter from you too or three weeks before I received it I wreaken I will have to excuse you this time far not writen sooner an hope that you will doo beter next time. this will in farm you that my self an Brother are both well an much hopeing this will reach you indue time and find you all injoying the same great Blesing and all all other Blesing that home can afford, we have some sickness in camp now which come from exposure I wreaken. Flem Gregory[3] has bin quite sick for the last four or five days. he has the pnuemonia but is not dangers I dont think, he is something better today, he is all the one that is sick in our company an I hope he will bee soon up Plese excuse bad Writin and Spellin for it is very Badly dun Christmas is close by and I se no chance for me or James to get home. I would like the best in the world for one of us to get home by Christmas if we could and I think one of us was to get a furlough and if the officers would doo rite we would get one. but if they can get g home whenever they pleas they dont care for us, I havent never applide for a furlo but James have bin after one an cant get it started, I beleave if Capt Herndon [4] would start one for him he would get it but he is Just too lazy to write it out, thare is ent a nother company in the regt but wh what gets more furloughs than our company doo and I dont be leave its anything else but because John Herndon wount dont start them, I wreaken the next time we orgune Organize the armey we had better all bee Of ficers or privates one for thare is too much dif farence made in them, Capt Herndon expects to get another fur lough soon after Christmas to go home but if I had it in power he would not get one til the last man in his company get one. We are here now dooen nothen in the wa world not eaven pickett duty and my oppenion the most of the men that dont get fur loughs be fore thare three years are out will go when thay are out thay say so any how, Plese I dont mean to say that I will go home but nearly all the men say they will if they will dont call out all the men that have put in substitute an furlough all the old soldiers that have bin out so long, I am a posed to desertion as much as any boddy can bee but I say put every one on equal foottin for this is a rich mans war an a por mans fight, [5] I be leave thare are some of the men that have but in substitute are dooen a great eal of good but the most of them are doo en more harm than good they are just speculaten on the poor people, an soldiers, I must stop a bout the soldiers for I wreaken you think I am going the other side of my self, I dont think think thare will be much Christmas seen here this time but I hope you all will have a good time, I exspect there will be a weding near you in the Christmas Memory Inman[6] starts home in the morning on furlou to get marred I hope he will ge have a good time, I exspect he is going to take Miss Mary Fullar, I dont no, I will stop James & cousin Thom Joins me in love too you all, you must write soon an give me all the news, no mamare
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